[systemd-devel] systemd-networkd bridge with DHCP not working

[Tom Gundersen]

On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 6:45 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:15 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
>> On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 9:47 PM, Henrik /KaarPoSoft
>> <henrik at kaarposoft.dk> wrote:
>>> However, I find it disturbing that DHCP is attempted first on the "wrong"
>>> MAC, only to be killed and restarted on the "right" MAC.
>>> Is this really the best way of solving this ???
>
> [...]
>
>> What we could do is to force the mac address when creating the bridge
>> to one we invent ourselves, which (if I read the kernel code
>> correctly) should then become permanent.
>
> I have now implemented this in git, so things should look much better
> in the next release. At least when the bridges are wholly managed by
> us.

I spoke too soon. Had to revert that again due to kernel bug... We'll
try again when that gets sorted :)

Cheers,

Tom